Engagement and consultation to date - February 2021

In late 2019, Council began reviewing and evaluating its current 10-year Community Strategic Plan.

Council engaged with the community to identify people's main priorities and aspirations for the future and to plan strategies for achieving these goals. This information was to be used to develop a new Community Strategic Plan.

The community consultation to inform the new Community Strategic Plan took place in early 2020 and was combined with community consultation to develop a new Local Strategic Planning Statement. This is a strategic document looking at land-use planning and development controls.

Hundreds of people gathered together across the region in community halls to discuss these two plans and provide Council with important feedback and ideas. We also ran an online community survey and provided an online space for people to share and submit ideas.

Then in March 2020, COVID-19 came along and the world changed. The local government elections and the development of the Community Strategic Plan were postponed for 12 months.

The Local Strategic Planning Statement was adopted by Council in 2020.